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History of the World -- Part I (1981)
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"Lists of movies within movies are fairly common on the internet, enough that I now realize I need to finally see Bowfinger simply because I’ve counted about a million list makers in love with something titled “Chubby Rain.” And the lists are likely to keep on coming thanks to this week’s hot release, Tropic Thunder, which actually features two movies within (the Vietnam War film “Tropic Thunder” and the festival-winning making-of documentary “Rain of Madness”), as well as the upcoming How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which has spawned a popular fake movie trailer for an NC-17 film titled “Mother Theresa: The Making of a Saint” (previewed above). Yet until someone makes "
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"It’s a sad day for Mel Brooks fans. With us still mourning yesterday’s passing of Harvey Korman, who appears in a number of Brooks’ films, today Page Six reports that the Spaceballs director is “quietly shuttering” his film production company, Brooksfilms. In addition to Brooks’ directorial works from A History of the World: Part 1 through Dracula: Dead and Loving It, the company also made such films as The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road,
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"Mel Brooks has a way with words, and music, and dancing, and just about everything he touches....does that sound dirty to you too? Good, it's not just me then. So what happens when this man gets his hands on some of the biggest events in human history? Hilarity ensues, that's what.The film covers several major events in the span of humanity: the dawn of man, the stone age, Moses bringing the commandments, the roman empire, the last supper, the Spanish inquisition, and the French revolution. All of these are covered with your standard Brooks' type of humor: bad sex jokes galore in Rome, Moses dropping a tablet of the original 15 commandments, someone using "Jesus" as a swear at the last supper and a whole cycle of "What?".The Spanish inquisition, on the other hand, is by far the most memorable of the vignettes. It's not very long, but it's toe tappingly good! Yeah, it's a song and dance number stlyed like a broadway show. The inquisitors s ... "
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"Listen, schmucks. People I know raved about History of the World, and so I had to see it, since I'd never seen it before. Yeah, I know, I'm living under a rock-occasionally. Let it be said that I do like Mel Brooks; I think he's wonderfully funny, even though he kind of rips off Monty Python a lot. That being said, of the flicks I've seen of his (Young Frankensten, Spaceballs, Men In Tights, and I think Blazing Saddles...and this one), Spaceballs is still currently my favorite. Don't get me wrong, I laughed at this one. Mostly during the Roman Empire chapter. It's just didn't strike me as funny as people made it out to be. Still, it was pretty funny. The funniest character: Empress Nympho played by the eternal Madeleine Kahn. Her appearances in the early Brooks' films are always the best. She made me giggle for sure. I'm not sure which were my favorite scenes. I will have to see it again. If you like Mel Brooks and/or zany madcap humor, this is a good one. I think I m ... "
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